Exa AI

Exa AI MCP Connector for Claude

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Search the web with neural embeddings that understand meaning, not just keywords, and return the most relevant results for any query.

12 tools Official Updated Jun 28, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner

Connect your Exa AI (formerly Metaphor) account to any AI agent and take full control of your web research and data extraction workflows through natural conversation.

What you can do

  • Semantic Search Orchestration — Perform AI-native searches that understand intent and meaning to retrieve the most relevant web pages programmatically
  • Content Intelligence — Programmatically extract clean, parsed text or highlights from any URL, excluding ads and boilerplate automatically
  • Similarity Discovery — Find pages semantically similar to a source URL to build comprehensive and high-fidelity research datasets
  • Deep Data Mapping — Discover all reachable links on a domain and retrieve discovery metadata to understand site structures programmatically
  • Search Filtering — Restricted searches by domain, category (company, blog, news), or discovery date directly through your agent

How it works

  1. Subscribe to this server
  2. Retrieve your API Key from the Exa AI dashboard (Settings > API Keys)
  3. Start searching the web semantically from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client

No more manual keyword-based searching or messy scraping scripts. Your AI acts as your dedicated neural research assistant.

Who is this for?

  • AI Developers — build RAG pipelines by programmatically ingesting semantically relevant web data using natural language
  • Market Researchers — instantly identify competitors and find similar companies across the web using semantic discovery
  • Content Analysts — automate the extraction of highlights and clean text from technical blogs and news without leaving your workspace
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12 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

advanced_custom_search

Complex search query

find_similar_pages

Find matches for a URL

get_api_status

Check connection

extract_page_content

Retrieve web page text

get_query_highlights

Extract relevant snippets

keyword_search

Search by exact keywords

perform_live_crawl

Fresh web extraction

search_with_contents

Search and extract text

search_by_category

Search by site type

search_by_crawl_date

Search by discovery date

search_specific_domains

Search within sites

semantic_search

Perform AI-native search

See how to talk to your AI agent using Exa AI.

Search for the latest research on room-temperature superconductors using Exa.

Running semantic search... I've found 5 high-quality research papers and articles from the last 3 months. Notable results include a study from Nature and a detailed technical blog from MIT. Would you like the highlights for any of these?

Find pages similar to 'https://openai.com/blog/sora/' from news domains.

Discovery complete! I've located 3 semantically similar articles on news platforms like TechCrunch and The Verge. They discuss generative video trends and competitor reactions. Shall I extract the clean text from these links?

Get the clean text content from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence'.

Extraction complete! I've retrieved the clean Markdown content for the AI Wikipedia page. It includes the history, definitions, and main research areas, excluding all sidebars and ads. Would you like a summary?

Log in to your [**Exa AI dashboard**](https://dashboard.exa.ai/), and copy your unique API Key from the settings section.

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